For the baffled, the limited edition print version comes with an instruction manual (sorry, e-book fans!). Translated – in a tribute to Raymond Queneau’s ‘Exercises in Style’ – into various tones of voice, readers of all dispositions may thus learn how to get the most from their Contraption. Print buyers also get four extra activity pages for them to fill in or contemplate studiously.

The Maxwell’s Demon stopping this issue hurtling into entropy is our bonus booklet, Device Squad. Niall O’ Sullivan, Sophia Blackwell, Nicholas Liu and Chrissy Williams have tinkered with a machine apiece to turn each apparatus into a strange and wonderful poem.

Still not enough to coil your springs? In that case, play this issue’s text adventure game Imperilous, in which you play the imp of the perverse, perched on the shoulder of an Edo-era thief sneaking round a warlord’s castle. Will you convince her to escape with Hideyoshi’s loot, screw up and get caught by the palace guards, plummet from the rooftop or just nick some prize finches and belt off into the woods? Only one way to find out.